Age of Conan GC 2007 Siege Video ==> Best Online Game of the Show

*snicker*

FREE BATTLE ELEPHANT WITH PRE-ORDER!??? I'm going to be a Thai Elephant Riding Mercenary ho bag. MmmMMmm.

It looks a bit vanilla but hey, I like vanilla. Besides, they still won Best of Show (Online):

Durham, USA – August 24th, 2007 – Funcom and Eidos’ highly anticipated massively multiplayer online game ‘Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures’ has been awarded the prestigious, official ‘Best Online Game of the Show’ award at the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany. The trade show is one of the largest gaming conventions in the world and by far the largest in Europe, with all of the major upcoming game titles represented.

The award was won in competition with online games from all genres and across all platforms, and was presented by a jury consisting of gaming industry press and mainstream press.

Funcom and Eidos are also very proud to have won the OMEGA award for “Best Online Game”, presented by a German online games magazine association made up of the most important gaming media in Germany; including two of the largest gaming web sites. Other nominees for this award included: ‘Warhammer Online’, ‘Hellgate: London’ and ‘Unreal Tournament 3’.

“This is a great honor to everyone working on ‘Age of Conan’,” says Funcom CEO Trond Arne Aas. “These awards really show that our massive efforts are paying off and that the public, the press and the industry are recognizing the very strong qualities of the game.”

‘Age of Conan’ is heavily represented at this year’s Games Convention. The game is being shown in the Microsoft area, the Eidos area and behind closed doors to select press. Funcom is showing all new content, including player-versus-player sieges and mini-games.

“Siege warfare and player-versus-player battles are some of the most anticipated features in ‘Age of Conan’,” says Game Director Gaute Godager. “We recognize the tremendous importance that Games Convention has in the industry and that is why we chose this to be the arena for first showing off these features, letting gamers play player-versus-player for the first time.”

Still, I'm going to contain my excitement, because that failure of a game DDO won a bunch of "best ofs" as well.